3 years ago
Heading into Tuesday night's 5A Sub-State opening round, two things were certain for Salina South, they had to defend Andover Central's Kobe Smith at all times, and they had to find more offensive success than in their previous few games. Unfortunately for the Cougars, neither of those two things occurred, and Andover Central defeated Salina South ...

3 years ago
Ell-Saline's season comes to an end after suffering a 59-40 loss at the hands of the Sacred Heart Knights on Tuesday night. After a fairly even 1st quarter, the Cardinals only found themselves down 5 points, facing a 15-10 deficit. However, after being outscored 21-8 in the 2nd quarter, Ell-Saline quickly found themselves doubled up, 36-18 at ...

3 years ago
  Andale 45 Abilene Cowgirls 22 Garden Plain – The Abilene Cowgirls season came to an end Tuesday night in the opening round of Sub-State against State Power Andale. The game was moved because of a water line break at Andale High School.  The Lady Indians entered the game as the #2 Seed in the 4A West ...

3 years ago
Minneapolis was unable to ever turn the corner in its 42-33 loss to Riley County in Tuesday's first round sub-state game. The Lions never led in the game. They have now lost seven straight opening sub-state games dating back to 2016. Riley County (9-11) took care of the ball well and made plays when it needed to, ...

3 years ago
Valley Center 63, Salina Central 52 The Central boys were determined to get over the hump against the Valley Center Hornets on Tuesday in the opening round of the 5A playoffs, but despite leaving it all on the floor, the Mustangs were unable to pull the upset and saw their season come to an end. The game ...

3 years ago
In the opening round of sub state at home the Viking girls won over Ellsworth 54-33. The Vikings got off to a good start leading 12-4 after 1. Ellsworth did outscore the Vikings 12-11 in the 2nd quarter but the Vikings  jumped out again in the 3rd quarter 12-6 to lead 35-22 after 3. Then ...

3 years ago
Last season the Ell-Saline girls’ basketball season ended with the Cardinals having a 6-14 record. Cardinal head coach Bill Geis made one of the team goals to flip that record in the ‘21/’22 season and that is exactly what happened. As good of an accomplishment as that was, when you get to 14-6 with a sub-state ...

3 years ago
A struggle to score doomed Minneapolis in its 49-20 loss to Southeast of Saline in the first round of Sub-State on Monday evening. The Lions had more than 30 turnovers in the loss, and they only made one three-pointer. Despite that, Minneapolis played solid defense, especially early on. Southeast of Saline led just 19-8 at the ...

3 years ago
At Lindsborg Smoky Valley took care of business opening up a first quarter lead of 13-7 then really got things going in the 2nd outscoring the Bearcats 23-8 to lead 36-15 at the half. In the 3rd quarter the Vikings picked up right where they left off and took a 53-23 lead into a running ...

3 years ago
pictured is Abilene Sophomore, Tucker Cell picture courtesy of Tanner Colvin 4A Teams Scores Tonganoxie 136 Augusta 127.5 Andale 111 (Team Champion in 2021) Rose Hill 105 Chanute 78 Colby  66.5 Ottawa 64 Scott City 63 Abilene 59.5 NCKL Concordia 56 NCKL Clay Center 53.5 NCKL Holton 52 Wamego 50.5 NCKL Abilene Cowboys 120 #4 Christopher McClanahan, Junior 25-6 (Abilene ...

3 years ago
pictured is Abilene Sophomore, Tucker Cell picture courtesy of Lyndsey Buechman Abilene Cowboys   120 #4 Christopher McClanahan, Junior 25-6 (Abilene Regional Champion) First Round - Chris McClanahan (Abilene) 26-6 WBF 1:46 over Robert Crooks, Sr. (Ottawa) 14-12 Quarterfinals - Chris McClanahan (Abilene) 27-6 WBF 3:46  Cason Wyrick, Fr. (Labette County) 34-6 Semifinals - Chris McClanahan (Abilene) 28-6 WBF 4:09 ...